ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Lurkingly

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adverb

Quick meaning: Lurkingly is an adverb meaning So as to lurk; in sinister concealment.

Meaning

So as to lurk; in sinister concealment.

Example Sentences

Discontent foreran the Two Mutinies, and more or less it lurkingly survived them.
The despondency of the situation led to the feeling which then lurkingly dominated many other minds, viz. that, after all, it was better to be with Gandhi in the new movement and trim it if possible from within rather than stand out of it and let it spread without control or hindrance.
[…] when the Feat of the Loose-Coat Skirmish happeneth to be done under-hand and privily, between two well-disposed, athwart the Steps of a Pair of Stairs, lurkingly, and in covert, behind a Suit of Hangings, or close hid and trussed upon an unbound Faggot, it is more pleasing to the Cyprian Goddess […] than to perform that Culbusting Art, after the Cynick manner, in the view of the clear Sunshine, or in a rich Tent, under a precious stately Canopy […]

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hidingly, skulkingly, stalkily, cloakedly, sneakingly, concealingly.

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